Editor's Note 10/5/17

While many politicians were saying it’s too soon to talk about gun control, our Sen. Richard Durbin said it’s lawmakers’ job to answer tough questions. “Congress is complicit if it continues its course of inaction,” Durbin said this week. “Can we protect the Second Amendment rights of every American, yet draw reasonable lines at the types of weapons that are being sold and say that there are some that have no legitimate legal purpose?” Durbin and many others say the answer is yes. We’re eager – when the time is right – to hear how the unpredictable Mr. Trump will answer that question. –Fletcher Farrar, editor and CEO